Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- adj. Exhibiting idiocy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Uncultured; plain; simple. See extract under idiotical.
- Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; afflicted with idiocy; having the quality of idiocy; very foolish; stupid.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; afflicted with idiocy.
- adj. Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish; stupid; nonsensical.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Common; simple.
- adj. Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a mental age of three to seven years
- adj. incongruous;inviting ridicule
- adj. insanely irresponsible
Examples
“Is that what you call the idiotic gossip you report about?”
“Both protested against what they called my idiotic kindness, but their protests were half-hearted.”
“Within the week I had repented of what I termed my idiotic quixotism, and for precisely nine days after that I cursed my folly.”
“David Denby, the critic from the New Yorker, announced that his review of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" would be published in the coming week's issue, a full eight days before the embargo date to which critics belonging to the New York Film Critics Circle agreed to hold their verdicts. letter to Rudin, Denby largely blamed both the studio's schedule -- "Grown-ups are ignored for much of the year, cast out like downsized workers, and then given eight good movies all at once in the last five weeks of the year," he wrote -- and his magazine's double issue conflict with the NYFCC's moved up awards voting schedule this year, which he called "idiotic" and said he "furiously opposed.”
“As for the suggestion of not using any (or live) bait for fishing, that's just plain idiotic and ridiculous.”
“Reggie the only source he could possibly have for something so stupid and obviously wrong and idiotic is his lower torso”
Think Progress » Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers.
“Personally Dick being Batman is just plain idiotic, and boring.”
“Yet any Democrat anywhere who says or does something idiotic is immediately cited by you as a leading liberal thinker.”
Bubbles and Macroeconomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“All those simplistic or plain idiotic measures seem to come from people who never taught.”
“Second, the point you now allege to make is idiotic from the get go.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andrew McCarthy Sticks to His Guns (And He May Be Pointing Them at You Next)
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Bonkers
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